Art Art &Photos 09 Nov 2008 09:29 am
More Public Sculptures
-One of the aspects I love enormously about living in NY is the appreciation of art in our daily lives. It’s everywhere. I enjoy displaying images of some of the sculpture I pass frequently.
I’m not just talking, of course, of the many many recognizable personalities standing in bronze around all our parks and crossings but of many of the other non-representational pieces as well.
“Give My Regards to Broadway” composer, George M. Cohan (think James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy” graces Times Square at Broadway & 46th Street. (This is actually called Duffy Square – a small triangle between 46th & 47th St named for Father Duffy, a noted military chaplain during WW I.) He greets all the visitors to Tin Pan Alley wherein he made his living.
Actually theaters moved to this area after the turn of the 20th Century. Prior to that the theatrical area was downtown some 10 blocks at Herald Square. (Both Squares were named for newspapers – Herald Sq. for the NYHerald, Times Sq. for the NYTimes.)
Regardless, this statue is a staple for all New Yorkers who usually take it for granted. ——————————————-.(Click any image to enlarge.)
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Let’s move downtown to Union Square – 14th Street. The summer art program has deposited three large new sculptures. Dennis Oppenheim’s Tumbling Mirage.
A somewhat dented sign gives us a small bit of information about the large pieces.
From the park at Union Square, you can look over to
the small traffic triangle to see the three pieces.
Crossing the street, you can walk in, through and around them.
Looking uptown you get a more picturesque view of Park Ave.
Moving closer to my studio, there’s a very small children’s playground at Sixth Ave.
and Houston St. Within it is a small, child-sized sculpture of a seal.
I see this piece daily, and I wonder how many others notice it. The stone
is worn down a bit for all the children who’ve touched it and ridden it.
No info seems to be there about the sculptor.
When I started photographing it, rain began to fall.
It made for interesting patterns on the stone.
By the third and last photo, the rain was falling harder, and
the seal took on a different appearance.
